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“Home Alone” certainly made Culkin a star, which was its intention, and O’Hara, by dint of John Hughes’ characterization, an able partner.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

Simply by dint of their tablet-like heft, dictionaries make a claim for longevity and authority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

By dint of pandemic pauses and far-flung locales around the U.K.’s Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the lineup managed to quietly ferment and realize some of that long-ago unknown magical mystery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

He can get them to do things by dint of their friendship—things that other presidents cannot.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025

Anyway I dint know that I knew how to work the mixer.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

You saw near my burg a mountain cloven at the top into three square dales, of which one was the deepest,—these were the dints made by your hammer.

From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Rasmus Björn Anderson

I burst out, for the familiar labels, ay, the very dints in the brass lock, carried only sour memories to me, now.

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by J. Scott (John Scott) Williams

She took the shield from the corner, and handled the bruises and dints in it lovingly, and made pictures to herself of all the battles and tournaments it had been through with her knight.

From Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor by Katharine Cameron

The dints in her face looked very comely as she answered, "I shall, friend Biddle."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

I mount no longer when the trumpets call; My battle-harness idles on the wall, The spider's castle, camping-ground of dust, Not without dints, and all in front, I trust.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

A survey conducted at the end of 2018 by Spotted, a data and research provider focused on the celebrity endorsement space, suggested that the furore had barely dinted Hart’s appeal.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019

They are dinted and angled to reflect the movement of the sky rather than the city below, enhancing light internally.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2014

Oliver, now 34, was born in Birmingham and five years in New York haven't dinted his Brummie burr.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2011

He came, a weary man with dinted helm and cloven shield.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

From the looks of the grounds, tom and muddy and littered with bits of dinted armor and broken lances, they had been at it for a day or more, but now the end was near.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

By dint of dinting, I managed the trick.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

"No cheer," he answered, gloomily, dinting his finger-nails into his palm.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various

I’ll give it him when I can catch him! and if I serve not our Seth out for dinting in the blackjack last night, I’m a Dutch woman, and no mistake!

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

Wet and bright the dinting pebbles Shine where oft she paused and stood; All her dreamy warmth revolving, While the chilly waters wooed.

From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith

And she held the chubby wrist out to Valeria, showing three little lines dinting the tender flesh.

From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres